Comment 2 for bug 700831

Hi,

nothing that I tried on the boot prompt helped (different kernels, specifying the boot partition as /dev/sda1, not by UUID). Finally I removed the disk, hooked it up to a USB box, and fsck'd the root partition on a different machine.

Then I inserted it back to the original machine and it booted the newest kernel from the list just fine.

After logging in, Update Manager reports: "Software index is broken - It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at first."

Now let's see what happens when I try to update again.